Earlier this month, residents in Fayetteville, Arkansas, voted to repeal a non-discrimination ordinance that anti-gay activists claimed would have allowed male sex offenders to use women’s restrooms. Now, Gordon Klingenschmitt is predictably elated that Christians in the city stood up and voted “against the Devil.”

Klingenschmitt praised the vote on a recent “Pray In Jesus Name” program, saying that the ordinance was the result of a demonic spirit of anti-Christian persecution that seek to force Christians to “fork over their children” so they can be indoctrinated into sin.

But fortunately, Klingenschmitt said, Christians in Fayetteville “took a stand … and voted 52-48 against the Devil” by repealing the non-discrimination ordinance: